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“The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it, as if they knew what it is they are denying. This misuse gives rise to absurd beliefs, assertions, and egoic delusions, such as "My or our God is the only true God, and your God is false," or Nietzsche's famous statmeent "God is dead.”

People Ifs Giving Years Mean Use Belief Behinds Talking Empty Infinite Sacred Conviction Arguing Absurd Realms Delusion Assertion Vastness Misuse True God God Is Dead

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In her light chariot quickly is convey'd; Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen Means to immure herself and not be seen.”

World Mean Light Courses Sky Empty Aids Queens Silver Weary Mistress Dove Yoke Chariots

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare

“One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.”

Writing Feelings Light White Doubt One Thing Pages Tasks Empty Absence Novelists Void Blank When In Doubt Blank Pages White Light

Author:Philip Sington

“They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.”

Might Kids Dies Space Behinds Empty Scared Empty Space Ruby Daly

Book:The Darkest Minds

Source: The Darkest Minds

“Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.”

Evil Dark Simple Empty Depth Holes Mysterious Staring

Author:Brent Weeks

“How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world goes to bed every night with empty stomachs and naked bodies?”

World Needs Body Night Realizing Half Car Bed Clothes Empty Wake Up Naked Toys Every Night Trinkets

Author:K.P. Yohannan

“Cold love’s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.”

Clear Cold Empty Civilized Crisps

Book:Titus Alone

Source: Titus Alone

“Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies," Jenks whispered, empty and bereft. "My word silent, though I should howl. Muffled by death, my wings can't lift me high enough to find you. I feel you within. Unaware of my pain. Not knowing why I mourn. And why I breathe alone.”

Ifs Feels Should Enough Pain Knowing Sky Tears Equal Empty Wings Silent Breathe Lifts Diamond Not Knowing Mourn Howl Bereft

Author:Kim Harrison

“That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.”

Way Life Is Water Space Lessons Empty Nine Here And Now Tissues Empty Space

Author:Graham Swift

“I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.”

Littles Waiting Empty Going Away Melancholy Weary Weariness

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet.”

Knows Heart Littles Quiet Empty Corners

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.”

Life Is Values Poet Empty Bitter Meaningless Killers Empty Life

Author:Brent Weeks

“It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The other two bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty.”

People Mean Two Girl Names Impossible Gun Empty Abuse Suicide Historical Factors Inevitable Combination Bullets Chamber Momentum Loaded Roulette Malaise Russian Roulette

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.”

Ifs Said Moments Half Figures Depends Empty Drinking Glasses Grandmother Splits My Grandmother Pouring Hesitation Half Full Half Empty

Author:Bill Cosby

“Go safely. Go safely, she thought to him. what a silly, empty thing it was to say to anyone, anywhere.”

Empty Silly

Book:Fire

Source: Fire

“And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.”

Enough Feelings Bigs Space Blood Empty Breaths Empty Space

Book:Between the Lines

Source: Between the Lines

“On bended knee is no way to be free lifting up an empty cup I ask silently that all my destinations will accept the one that's me so I can breath Circles they grow and they swallow people whole half their lives they say goodnight to wive's they'll never know got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul so it goes.”

People Knows Way Mind I Can Soul Whole Asks Grows Half Accepting Teacher Empty Breaths Circles My Soul Cups Knees Destination Lifting Lifting Up Empty Cup Saying Goodnight

Author:Eddie Vedder

“When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.”

Empty Bounds

Author:Rumi

“He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to the throne; he dances with others or moves from place to place through the room. The court thinks he is trying to be gracious, sharing his attention. Only I see that he moves always to the empty spot and the court always moves after him. He is like a dog trying to escape his own tail. He indulged himself in one brief moment of privacy, and almost died of it. Relius, he hates being king.”

Thinking Trying Moments Moving Hate Rooms Attention Dog Return Kings Empty Died Court Rewards Spots Evening Privacy Tails Thrones His Love Gracious Brief Moments

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music”

“I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential”

Want Mind Soul White Rooms Empty Letters Your Soul Love Letter

Author:Jeffrey McDaniel

“Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known.”

Knows Men Life Eye Action Life Is Joy Religion Attitude Known Teach Failing Teaching Empty Filled Ease Unconscious Sensations Within You Hostility True Religion True Life Hoaxes

Book:DUNE

Source: DUNE

“You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.”

Stills House Prayer Silence Gone Empty Notes Ghost Loud Curse Owners Strings Bowls Scent Petals Empty Houses

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”

Feels Sometimes Loss Space Behinds Relationship Losing Empty Absence Separation Novelists Break Up Missing Someone Empty Space Splitting

Author:Gayle Forman

“Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.”

Mind Body Hands Simple Sun Gone Fire Happened Sky Husband Empty Filled West Setting Settings Heat Indifferent Empty Life

Book:The Antelope Wife: A Novel

Source: The Antelope Wife: A Novel

“If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.”

Ifs Stars Space Sky Mines Empty Empty Space Nighttime

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.”

Ifs Matter Half Crazy Drink Empty Glasses Straws Half Full Half Empty

Author:Joey Comeau

“I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.”

Thinking Way Stills Feelings School Mother Father Space White Empty Stomach Empty Space Nausea

Book:Ham On Rye

Source: Ham On Rye

“People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”

People Empty Get Away Introvert Refills

Book:The Captain is Out to Lunch

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch

“When you go out with a drunk, you’ll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you’re drinking, drinking is okay. Two’s company. Drinking is fun. If there’s a bottle, even if your glass isn’t empty, a drunk, he’ll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.”

Ifs Looks Littles Long Two Fun Company Empty Okay Drinking Glasses Drunk Generosity Bottles

Book:Invisible Monsters: A Novel

Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel

“I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.”

Thinking World Children I Can States Answers United United States Fire Quiet Empty Bones Dust Brands Stomach Dirt Honorable Deliberate Another World Damp Toothpaste Empty Stomach

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. She took me in, fed, dressed me, but most importantly, she treated me with respect. She taught me that my abilities were nothing to be ashamed of, nothing I should try so hard to deny. She convinced me that what I had was a gift-not a curse- and that I shouldn't let other people's narrow minds and fears determine how I love, what I do, or how I perceive myself in the world. She actually made me believe that in no way, shape, or form did their uninformed opinions make me a freak.”

“Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautiful.”

I Can Beautiful Used Party Streets Empty Bottom Used To Be Invited Something Beautiful Remnants Confetti

Book:Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

“I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish.”

Self Spirit Hate Grief Teach Empty Guilt Finals Pity Vengeance Cunning Self Pity Parish Love Death

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.”

Ifs Knows Sleep Rooms Strange Empty Filled

Book:The Best of Faulkner

Source: The Best of Faulkner

“I am the ocean we lived on for two months. I am empty. I am nothing.”

Two Months Ocean Empty Two Months

Author:Kiersten White

“I like Daniel. He takes care of you." I blinked. "Oh my God. Did you really just say that? He takes care of me?" Dad flushed. "I didn't mean it like-" "Takes care of me? Did I go to sleep and wake up in the nineteenth century?" I looked down at my jeans and T-shirt. "Ack! I can't go to school like this. Where's my corset? My bonnet?" Dad sighed as Mom walked in with her empty teacup. "What did I miss?" She said. "Dad's trying to marry me off to Daniel." I looked at him. "You know, if you offer him a new truck for a dowry, he might go for it.”

“So this is the young man who has intentions toward my little girl." Bobby shifted in his seat and crossed his legs. "It is not fun on this side of the table, is it, Robert?" Uncle Eddie huffed, and Kat had to remember that once upon a time her mother had been a dark-haired girl in that kitchen, and her dad had been the stray she'd brought home. She watched the two men looking at Hale as if they'd never before laid eyes on him. "He's better-looking than the last vagabond I had to take in," Eddie said, standing and carrying empty bowls to the sink. "I'll give him that.”

“Oh, that,' said Ginny, giggling. 'Well-Percy's got a girlfriend.' Fred dropped a stack of books on George's head. 'What?' 'It's that Ravenclaw prefect, Penelope Clearwater,' said Ginny. 'That's who he was writing to all last summer. He's been meeting her all over the school in secret. I walked in on them kissing in an empty classroom one day. He was so upset when she was-you know-attacked. You won't tease him, will you?' she added anxiously. 'Wouldn't dream of it,' said Fred, who was looking like his birthday had come early.”

Knows Writing Wells Said Book Dream School Lasts Secret One Day Kissing Summer Empty Meetings Upset Girlfriend Classroom Tease Last Summer Funny Harry Potter

Author:J. K. Rowling

“One day they'll let you out of that dry, empty cell. You'll return to the Separates, and you'll feel the rain once more. And you'll grow straight, this time, toward this sunlight. I know you will.”

Knows Feels Grows Return One Day Rain Empty Cells Dry Sunlight

Book:Stolen

Source: Stolen

“Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my heart. Some of them. Not all.”

Ifs Heart Art Sometimes Knowing Fine My Heart Empty If I Could Empty Places

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.”

Art Sometimes Empty Empty Places

Book:The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

“Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.”

Ideas Body Fighting Water Realizing Son Empty Good Ideas Charging Poseidon Bodies Of Water

Author:Rick Riordan

“When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.”

World Wanted Beautiful Girl Grows Growing Up Emotional Empty Weak Supposed To Be Vain Inferiors Illogical

Author:Stevie Nicks

“He would do things for he'd do for no one else, but while he'd empty the sky for her so she could spread her wings, fly, he would not set her free. She belonged to him, would always belong to him”

Sky Empty Wings Spread

Book:Heart of Obsidian: A Psy-Changeling Novel

Source: Heart of Obsidian: A Psy-Changeling Novel

“As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.”

Responsibility Leader Empty Responsible Cups Filling

Book:Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend

Source: Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend

“You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.”

People Want Writing Ideas Running Water Empty Breaths Smell Emptiness Filling Filling Up

Author:Anne Lamott

“There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged. Such moments are most desirable, for it means the soul has cast its moorings and is sailing for distant places. This is detachment -- when the old is over and the new has not yet come. If you are afraid, the state may be distressing, but there is really nothing to be afraid of. Remember the instruction: Whatever you come across -- go beyond.”

Ifs Feels May Mean Soul States Moments Remember Empty Casts Instruction Sailing Desirable Detachment Distressing

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.”

Feels I Can Pain Streets Right Now Truth Is Empty

Book:Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

“Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.”

Ifs Giving Helping Action Asks Born Kindness Empty Inspired Refuse Pockets Be Inspired

Author:Immaculee Ilibagiza

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